How To Install policykit-desktop-privileges on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policykit-desktop-privileges
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is policykit-desktop-privileges
policykit-desktop-privileges is:
This package provides a set of PolicyKit privileges which allow Administrators to run common actions without being asked for their password:
- mounting and checking internal disk drives (through udisks)
- setting the CPU speed and policy (through the GNOME CPU frequency applet)
- setting the time and timezone (through the GNOME clock applet or through KDE)
- Adding/changing system-wide NetworkManager connections
- Update already installed software
- Configure printers
It does not change privileges for non-Administrators (users who are not in the “admin” or “sudo” group). So this satisfies the typical desktop/laptop use case where the user has full control over the hardware anyway.
This is implemented by shipping a pklocalauthority(8) file. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install policykit-desktop-privileges
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install policykit-desktop-privileges Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install policykit-desktop-privileges
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install policykit-desktop-privileges
Install policykit-desktop-privileges Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install policykit-desktop-privileges
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install policykit-desktop-privileges
Install policykit-desktop-privileges Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install policykit-desktop-privileges
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install policykit-desktop-privileges
How To Uninstall policykit-desktop-privileges on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the policykit-desktop-privileges
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove policykit-desktop-privileges
Uninstall policykit-desktop-privileges And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policykit-desktop-privileges
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove policykit-desktop-privileges
Remove policykit-desktop-privileges Configurations and Data
To remove policykit-desktop-privileges
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge policykit-desktop-privileges
Remove policykit-desktop-privileges configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove policykit-desktop-privileges
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policykit-desktop-privileges
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policykit-desktop-privileges
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.